386 -Chioruret of Lime. 
 Glelier: there is not a spot in the hall where one cannot see 
to read with the greatest facility.—Jbid. . 
14. Guent. There is about to be established in this towa 
a School of Arts and Trades, in which workmen of all profes- 
sions, and apprentices will be admitted. ‘The city of Ghent 
designs, it would appear, to prepare the building at its own 
expense. The lectures will be given gratuitously.—Jbid. 
15. Paris. According to a statement, made by authority, 
there were 371 suicides in this city during the year 1824; 
namely, 239 men and 132 women. This is 19 less than in 
the preceding year; but the number of these melancholy 
events isa heavy charge against our civilization, of which we 
are so proud, and which still preserves so many traces of bar- 
barity. Gambling-houses, lotteries, brothels, openly author- 
ized, are so many perfidious snares laid for cupidity, misery, 
weakness, and all the corrupt passions: and these schools of 
immorality pay a tribute to enjoy a shameful privilege, and 
obtain a legal existence in the bosom of a Recies order which 
they. dishonour.—Ibid. 
hate o, Quinine.—The high sceahabiavele blem 
ales antae the ot ty of eer and emt is 
re /the audacity to request 
M. ‘Pelletier, of whom he Porchaced this article, to prepare 
-him some sulphate of lime,(which, as is well known, crystal- 
lizes in silky fibres,) in order to mix it with sulphate of quinine. 
This then is one method of adulteration. Others have sub- 
stituted carbonate of magnesia. These frauds are easily dis- 
covered ; for it is suflicient to treat the sulphate of quinine 
Behe 
with aleohol which dissolves it entirely, whilst the two other 
ined ice 
salts remain insoluble, and washed with oe water are ns 
pid. —Bul. de Sciences Avit, 1825. 
17. Chloruret of Lime.—M, Virey commuricated to the Aca- 
dem ny of Sciences at Paris on the 14th of Mas, a statement of 
the diseases which afflicted the army of Spain in 1812, by Dr. 
Estienne, by which it appears that chloruret of lime, spread. 
among the beds of those affected’ with typhus, produced in 
the most infected hospitals very advantageous effects. M. 
Lisfrane stated that he had used the same substance success 
fully for a considerable time in the treatment of atonic ulcers 
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